Clan Of The Cave Bear Analysis

The movie I choose to compare to my experience was the “Clan of the Cave Bear”, this movie was about a girl Ayla, who lost her mother in an earthquake at a young age and was found by Iza a woman from the Clan who convinced the a group of cave people who were searching for a new cave to take in Ayla. Growing up Ayla was faced with a lot of tragic situations. However, she did not give up instead she allowed her difficulties to make her stronger. When Ayla first got around the cave people, everything was new to her and she had to learn to adapt to their lifestyle. Ayla was able to quickly adapt to their language and lifestyle, the cave people, then accepted her as one of their own. However, Ayla was limited to do certain things such as slinging the rock (hunting) because she was a girl. One day the cave people children were being attacked by an animal and Ayla was the only one who was able to save him because she slung the rock. The cavemen were angry with her and all the cave people had now turned their back on her because it was against their values. Ayla had to face the consequences and was sent away until the moon changes. Also, throughout the movie Ayla was raped several times as a form of punishment and had a baby by Broud (cave leader son). Ayla had dealt with …show more content…
I believe during this class I was able to stood my ground and not go with the flow. Before coming to the class I was completely open-minded but very curious about what was going to happen because I had heard so many stories about people crying and learning so much about themselves during this class. Day one of the class was extremely draining, from the awkward silence, to Evan rambling about a bunch of nothing, Beth constantly talking about unnecessary things that had nothing to do with the group, and Megan being non-chalant about